UPDATED: After releasing details on this movie this morning, people wanted to see the trailer, as did we, so with the help of some IIT intelligence agents, we found, or well, with some additional help, err, well, … here it is.

Director Christopher McQuarrie is set to introduce yet another film, a ninth installment, in the Mission Impossible franchise later this year, but with a twist, as the protagonist, Agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) of the Impossible Missions Force, will become the villain.

Titled Mission Impossible: Pachamama, the film will, according to its officially published storyline, feature a spy and action movie plot, but rather than the usual Tom Cruise doing incredible stunts storyline, Ethan Hunt will be transformed in some way into a demonic South American cult statue on display in the Vatican, while special agents Alexander Tschuggell and Fr. David Nix will have to deploy to stop the now villainous Hunt from corrupting the entire Church and casting its demonic spells on to all the inhabitants of Rome.

Even with a different format, it has everything audiences love in a Mission Impossible movie, from spy moments with Dr. Taylor Marshall playing himself as the heist’s mastermind, action sequences like car chases through Rome with Fr. Nix and Tschuggell riding motorcycles across the rooftops of the Vatican, an attempt to extricate the Pachamama by U.S. special forces parachuting from low-earth-orbit, a romantic side plot with Alexander Tschuggell meeting his future wife at a Vespers officiated by Archbishop Schneider, and even some sort of side plot involving blocks of ice at Castel Gandolfo.

Though Ethan Hunt is fictional, McQuarrie and Paramount Pictures insist that the film is based “loosely” on real 2019 era events, but that exaggeration and creative license are still rather minimal. “The real-life Pachamama heist was epic, and we can’t wait to take you along backstage on the incredible, nearly impossible mission that Tschugguel and friends carried out,” McQuarrie commented. “Will Nix and Tschugguel be able to rescue and convert Ethan Hunt? How will Luce show up? Was he always the Pachamama all along, or did he merely attend one too many shamanistic prayer sessions and get possessed by it? You’ve got to watch to find out!”

The film drops April 31st, 2026.

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